Domain Authority & Page Authority: How To Increase Yours?

This is a common listening word when it comes to SEO. As a beginner, it might be new to you.

You might be someone who is working hard to improve your blog domain authority score. Because you may listened that high DA websites rank easily!

I have seen beginners making mistakes just to improve their blog’s DA score because they think DA is all matters in the ranking.

And they end up in making mistakes which hurt their blog’s SEO, rankings and domain authority. Even sometimes they bring some toxic backlinks and spam score in. Just by using black-hat link building techniques to build tons of backlinks to boost DA score.

Tip: Black-Hat link building techniques are techniques against search engine guidelines that are implemented to build huge backlinks fast.

Well, this post will help you to uncover all those myths and confusions about Domain authority.

Because I’ll be covering everything about domain authority in this post and after reading the entire post, you will see yourself much familiar with the DA and how you can improve it?

What Is Domain Authority?

Domain Authority(short form DA) is a score created by Moz which predicts how well a website will rank on search engine result page(SERP). DA score is given to a website in the range of 1 to 100, the higher score a website has, the high ability it has to rank.

Various factors affect a website’s DA score, the list includes linking root domains, number of total backlinks, social proofs etc.

A website can easily grow to touch to 30 DA score compare than it is to grow to 30+. A new website comes with the DA score 0 or sometimes 1.

So, as you start building quality backlinks on your blog, you will see your DA increasing.

What Is Page Authority?

Page Authority is very similar to Domain Authority, Domain authority is the score given to a domain after analysing various factors.

Page Authority is a score developed by Moz that predicts how well a specific page will rank on SERPs. Where domain authority predicts how well a website will rank on SERPs.

As like DA, PA score is also given under the range from 1 to 100, the higher score your page gets, the chances will be high to get rank.

So, there is not much difference between the domain authority and page authority score.

How Domain Authority Evaluated?

There are various factors that Moz use to evaluate domain authority score.

Social Proofs: number of Facebook Likes, Twitter Retweets, LinkedIn Shares a site has received.

The number of root domains linking to the site.

The number of root domains linking to the site using partial match anchor text.

No. of subdomains that link to a website.

The number of quality websites linking to your site.

And the number of external links a website has.

How To Check Domain Authority Score?

There are many tools available that you can use to check your blog DA & PA score. Here is the list of some of them:

Remove Toxic Backlinks

If your blog has the backlinks from the toxic, low-quality and irrelevant sites then it will hurt your blog’s DA score.

But you can eliminate this risk just by maintaining a healthy backlink profile. You can find all the toxic backlinks pointing to your site and disavow them using Google disavow tool.

I prefer using SEMrush because it has a backlink audit tool that you can use to find toxic backlink pointing to your blog. Once you got all the toxic backlinks, you can disavow them using Google disavow tool.

Ravi Dixit

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Hi Ravi Dixit, I am new to digital marketing and SEO. Can you tell me Which domain authority is best for backlink purpose? I mean the higher number of domain authority or least number of domain authority. Waiting for your reply………